"TURKEY SHOULD MAKE GESTURES OF GOOD WILL TO ARMENIA"
APA
April 13 2010
Azerbaijan
Baku – APA. In an article published by Carnegie Endowment, Turkey and
Armenia are called to take confidence building measures to revive the
process of normalization, APA reports quoting turkishny.com web-page.
The article listed opening of borders to tourists, invitation of
diaspora Armenians to Turkey and initiation of Yerevan-Istanbul
flights by Turkish airlines as important steps that can be made and
called Turkey to make gestures of goodwill to Armenia.
Before the meetings that U.S. President Barack Obama will hold with
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Armenian President Serzh
Sarksyan during this week and before April 24th, American think tank
organization Carnegie Endowment published an article and called Turkey
to make gestures of good will towards Armenia to revive the process
"after a year of dragging feet".
Washington based think tank organization Carnegie Endowment’s
experienced Russia and Eurasia expert Thomas de Waal published an
article entitled "Armenia and Turkey: Bridging the Gap" and wrote
that current crisis between Turkey and Armenia will reach a head by
April 24.
The author stated that almost no hope exists about ratification of
protocols which signed by two countries any time soon and called
countries to make little steps to build confidence and to confirm
their belief on the process.
Stating that ratification of protocols will end the loneliness of
Armenia and let Turkey gain a new role in Caucasus, Thomas de Waal
called Turkey to open Turkish-Armenian border for tourists, to open
Ottoman archives and digitalize whole archive, to invite Armenian
diaspora to visit Anatolia and to initiate of Istanbul-Yerevan flights.
Political expert said that Armenia should end isolation of Nakhichevan
in return although it stresses that there is no connection between
Nagorno-Karabakh problem and Turkish-Armenian normalization process.